Hugi Excellence Award
Program Goal
The goal of the Hugi Excellence Award, named in honor of Joanne R. Hugi, is to recognize and share information about outstanding IT practices among higher education institutions of the Pacific Northwest. Exemplars identified by this program are intended to provide useful models for improving technology resources throughout the region. Awards applications will be considered in any of the following categories:
Academic technologies: Achievements in the use of information technologies for teaching, learning, or research; innovations in learning space design.
Technology infrastructure: Achievements in voice, data, or video networking, mobile technologies, provision of network services, security practices, and data center design.
Business processes and systems: Achievements in the development or use of administrative information technologies and IT-based business practices.
IT management and administration: Achievements in governance and policies, organizational structure, staff deployment, staff development, management practices, and funding models.
Eligibility
NWACC Board members as well as administrators, faculty, and staff from NWACC institutions are eligible to submit applications for the Hugi Excellence Award.
Evaluation Criteria
Practices submitted for consideration will be evaluated on the following criteria. Entries should address these criteria explicitly:
Innovation: In what way(s) does the practice represent a step forward in the use, support, or creation of information technology?
Benefits: Who are the beneficiaries of the practice and in what ways are educational, research, or institutional goals advanced by the practice?
Replicability: To what extent can the practice serve as a model for other institutions?
Costs: What resources are invested in the practice and is the practice cost-effective?
Submitting an Entry
To submit an entry, create a web page within your institution’s domain that includes the following:
- Name of the practice submitted for consideration
- Institution name
- Description of the practice
- Responses to the evaluation criteria questions
- Links to pages related to the practice itself (optional)
- Name, title, email address, and phone number of principle contact
- Names and email addresses of others responsible for the practice
The URL to this web page should be sent to nwacc@reed.edu by 5:00 p.m PDT on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Winning entries and those receiving honorable mention will be linked from the NWACC web site and publicized both inside and outside of NWACC.
* The Award Committee reserves the right to award in a different category than that specified in the original submission, as appropriate.
Awards
Up to two awards will be made in 2009. NWACC reserves the right to make no awards in a given year.
Award Presentations
One representative from an award winning group will be invited to attend the spring NWACC CIO Summit, to be held June 10-12, 2009, at Salishan Resort on the Oregon coast. NWACC will pay lodging and travel costs for the representative. Award representatives will receive a plaque recognizing their institution's achievement.
2009 Timeline
| March 25 | Solicitation of entries |
| April 22 | Deadline for submissions (5:00 p.m. PDT) |
| May 4 | Award decisions sent to entrants and NWACC Board; web pages linked from NWACC Web site |
| June 10-11 | Award presented at the NWACC CIO Summit |
Organizational Contact
If you would like to discuss an idea for an award entry, please contact your organization's NWACC representative.